[wplug] Emacs Magic

[Christopher DeMarco]

On Wed Oct 14 18:25:30 2009 -0400, Joe Gallo wrote:

> So, emacs-using wpluggers, here's your chance to wow me.  What's your
> most favorite "made with secret alien technology" feature of emacs?

8:-D

;; For starters, Emacs 23 fixes my two biggest complaints over the
;; years: native xft support in Linux and emacsclient can now connect
;; terminal-based and x-based frames to the same backend.  Check out
;; emacs --daemon and emacsclient!

;; Read about exchange-point-and-mark and the mark ring

;; tramp-mode will rock your world.  
;; Then use this so you always know where you are:
(defconst my-mode-line-buffer-identification
  (list
   '(:eval
     (let ((host-name
            (if (file-remote-p default-directory)
                (tramp-file-name-host
                 (tramp-dissect-file-name default-directory))
              (system-name))))
       (if (string-match "^[^0-9][^.]*\\(\\..*\\)" host-name)
           (substring host-name 0 (match-beginning 1))
         host-name)))
   ": %12b"))
(setq-default
 mode-line-buffer-identification
 my-mode-line-buffer-identification)
(add-hook
 'dired-mode-hook
 '(lambda ()
    (setq
     mode-line-buffer-identification
     my-mode-line-buffer-identification)))


;; And also http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsNiftyTricks


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